Thanks Juan. 

Well that is certainly possible. But then we have also some other lookups like 
the country, which is a lookup of 139 values. It would be difficult to keep 
that in the model itself. ;-)
But you are right about smaller lookups.

Regards,
Houman

On 3 Oct 2012, at 01:57, Juan Pablo Martínez <jpm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> GENDER_CHOICES = (
> ('male', _(u'Male')),
> ('female', _(u'Female')),
> )
> gender       = models.CharField(_(u'Sex'), max_length=10, 
> choices=GENDER_CHOICES)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Houmie <hou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Django has an excellent support for internationalization, any English 
> expression within Models, Forms, View or template can easily be marked for 
> translation. However I came across an interesting situation I don't know how 
> to deal with.
> 
> I have a Gender lookup (Male, Female). Now even if I translated the site into 
> German, the Gender dropdown is still pointing to the values saved in 
> database, which happens to be in English. So How am I supposed to mark the 
> values in the database to be translated in PO files?
> 
> class Gender(models.Model):
>     gender       = models.CharField(_(u'Sex'), max_length=10)    
> 
> 
>     def __unicode__(self):
>         return self.gender
>     class Meta:
> 
> 
>         verbose_name = _(u'Sex')
>         verbose_name_plural = _(u'Sexes')
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
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